I’ve posted the slides from the “Exploring Software + Services” presentation Mark Relph and presented May 28, 2009 at the Canadian Leadership Summit. We had a great session as there were plenty of good questions throughout which was appreciated as it always makes the presentation much more engaging so thanks to everyone who came to…

Two huge announcements I’m finding not a lot of people are aware of with regards to the latest release of Windows Live. 1. Skydrive is now 25GB (used to be 5GB) of free online storage. Not to me they did a great job integrating a nicer photo experience into the new page. check it out…

Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later. Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0 and “Dublin”, Oslo, SQL Data Services, Sql Server…

http://www.microsoft.com/azure You are also able to register to try the Community Technology Preview. Here’s a copy paste from the “What is Windows Azure?” section on the www.microsoft.com/azure What is the Azure Services Platform? The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating…

Key takeaways so far on what Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform are: Windows Azure: – A set of cloud-based technologies such as storage, identity, and multi-device sync that extend software development for both enterprise server and PC/browser/phone applications with services on the Web. Azure Services Platform: – A component of the Azure…

For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live Mesh is what I would have loved to be able to speak with you about during my talk on Windows Live Platform. Unfortunately the timing was two weeks off for me to be able to share this info…

I use the snipping tool in Windows Vista all the time. If you’ve ever wondered how to capture a menu using this tool, here’s how you do it (straight from the help file for the snipping tool btw) Can I capture a snip of a menu, such as a shortcut menu or the Start menu?…